Henry Kissinger Quotes
We're at a moment when the international system is in a period of change like we haven't seen for several hundred years. In some parts of the world, the nation state, on which the existing international system was based, is either giving up its traditional aspects, like in Europe, or as in the Middle East, where it was never really fully established, it is no longer the defining element. So in those two parts of the world, there is tremendous adjustment in traditional concepts.
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I have won on Honda and Yamaha so maybe it is interesting to win with a third team, Ducati, who are Italian.
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As an entrepreneur, you tend to see the opportunities where others see none.
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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The niqab, for some, has become an antiestablishment symbol around which one can rally and relish in the opportunities for confrontation that it provides.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.
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Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.
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I recognized that I had a window of opportunity that had opened because of my exposure as an actor.
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You need tremendous spirituality to stop yourself falling into the abyss.
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The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.
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If we just allowed women and men more leeway in our culture and more acceptance, I think they would be able to make better compromises.
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When I've produced a song, I try to record a vocal over it, and sometimes it becomes really hard. Sometimes I've already said a lot that I want to say within the production. The vocal is just adding to it, rather than it being a song.
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The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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In a competitive industry, only paranoid incumbents - those constantly striving for betterment - have any hope of surviving.
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I take my Bible with me, sometimes two of them, when I travel.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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A big blockbuster like 'Kick' expands the audience for my films and makes it easier to promote them.
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I will only miss school for an engagement if it is going to bring real change.
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I never change, except in my affections.
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I have always believed that I could help change the world, because I have been lucky to have adults around me who did.
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Rome was in the most dangerous inclination to change on account of the unequal distribution of wealth and property, those of highest rank and greatest spirit having impoverished themselves by shows, entertainments, ambition of offices, and sumptuous buildings, and the riches of the city having thus fallen into the hands of mean and low-born persons. So that there wanted but a slight impetus to set all in motion, it being in the power of every daring man to overturn a sickly commonwealth.
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We're at a moment when the international system is in a period of change like we haven't seen for several hundred years. In some parts of the world, the nation state, on which the existing international system was based, is either giving up its traditional aspects, like in Europe, or as in the Middle East, where it was never really fully established, it is no longer the defining element. So in those two parts of the world, there is tremendous adjustment in traditional concepts.
